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Title: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: mouser on January 16, 2009, 04:49 AM
I thought in the interest of fair play we should start a thread where people can point out things they don't like about this site, and areas they would like to see improvement.

so have at it! and let's definitely keep this thread compliment-free -- it's meant for (hopefully constructive) criticism.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: fenixproductions on January 16, 2009, 06:19 AM
Everything on my mind... go! ;)

1. In-line images

The most annoying things are in-line images.

Clicking on thumbnail makes picture bigger but this almost destroys whole layout of the webpage or gives unpleasant need for horizontal scrolling.

Good solution for that would be to give additional tag for popping out images in new browsers window or some overlay.

Other way is to give overlay control box similar to Internet Explorer's one with few options like:
- full screen (overlay),
- save to disc,
- fit width.

Another thing: it is hard for me to save enlarged images to my HDD. Sometimes it appears that Opera saved thumbnail only. Nice idea would be to have additional link below for download attached image (or inside mentioned box).

2. Advertisement

I've mentioned this once and will do that again: web buttons for DonationCoder.com might be excellent idea.

Many websites offer additional images to be placed in users' signatures, so DC should create the set of these for various parts or events.

3. FARR screenshots page

Navigation through all images is a pain for me now. Please consider better gallery mode (JS lytebox or something similar) which will not reload whole page.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: housetier on January 16, 2009, 07:00 AM
Excellent! I finally can get this off my chest:

We should find a better forum software than SMF. Their code is apparently very very solid, but I do not like their license model.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: rjbull on January 16, 2009, 07:36 AM
Ability to permanently delete entries from the "Show new replies to your posts" list, for threads one is no longer interested in.



Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: f0dder on January 16, 2009, 07:44 AM
Excellent! I finally can get this off my chest:

We should find a better forum software than SMF. Their code is apparently very very solid, but I do not like their license model.
Who gives a fsck about license model? It's a solid forum with good features, and it's had a very low amount of exploits compared to some of the other junk on the market - that is important.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: housetier on January 16, 2009, 08:42 AM
yeah whatever f0dder  (obviously I do not give a filesystem check)
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: nudone on January 16, 2009, 08:56 AM
on the 'unread posts' page, how about moving the select boxes so it's easier to scan through the list and quickly pick them off. if it's possible to move them.

(i remember mouser agreeing with this one back in 2005).

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edit:

after 4 years of looking at this page i guess i'm used to it now anyway. so ignore me.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Josh on January 16, 2009, 08:57 AM
May I ask what exactly is wrong with the license model for SmF? I have seen several sites running this without issues and no one has complained about the license model. This is the first I've heard about negativities towards the SmF model. What forum software do you suggest?

Other than that, the only thing I can think of for DC is a better review system in which we can break down the review into various collapsable sections of the main page. This way, we can view certain parts of the review without having to continuously scroll.

That, and perhaps a software rating system of our own. That way we can post programs and rate it based on our thoughts.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Carol Haynes on January 16, 2009, 08:58 AM
The thought of porting a forum that has been active for a few years with many thousands of post to a new system is a little daunting.

If you don't like the licensing system can you explain why and also if you would like a move suggest an alternative forum with a license you do like.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Veign on January 16, 2009, 09:12 AM
Feeds:
One thing I find annoying is the RSS Feed from SMF and how active threads totally consume the feed.  What would be nice is a topic only appears once in the feed list, positioning itself based on the last response timestamp.  This would you to see the last 10 active threads instead of the last 10 posts.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Darwin on January 16, 2009, 09:13 AM
Ability to permanently delete entries from the "Show new replies to your posts" list, for threads one is no longer interested in.

+1 to this idea - it's been plaguing me of late.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: TheQwerty on January 16, 2009, 10:56 AM
On the "Show Unread Posts" page I'd like to see either a select all checkbox at the bottom of the page, or just a "Mark Page Read" link.

Anytime I have to go through more than 1 page, I always forget to select all before scrolling down.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: mahesh2k on January 16, 2009, 11:33 AM
@Karol:
1. In-line images>> You mean Lightboxes for forums?

Back to Topic:

1) Other than paypal, please mention if Alertpay, Western Union Payment methods are available or not.
2) New Emoticons (these looks too fat)  :P :down:
3) Maybe a place(extension within this site) where we can collaborate for open source/in-house DC Software

Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Deozaan on January 16, 2009, 01:41 PM
I'd like the option to ignore a thread so that it doesn't show up in my Unread Posts list. Ignoring entire boards is useful sometimes (although it can be hard to find) but if there's a single thread in the Living Room that I don't care to follow anymore, I'd really like the option to ignore it.

The thing is, if I ever changed my mind, I'd need to be able to find it manually. What I think the main point is that it should still be listed if I manually browse the forum tree, but should not show up on unread posts or latest posts, etc.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: fenixproductions on January 16, 2009, 01:44 PM
@Karol:
1. In-line images>> You mean Lightboxes for forums?
Not really. I am thinking about possibility to avoid using horizontal scrollbar when it's not needed. Opening a picture in new window could be OK.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: TucknDar on January 16, 2009, 02:29 PM
I'd like the option to ignore a thread so that it doesn't show up in my Unread Posts list. Ignoring entire boards is useful sometimes (although it can be hard to find) but if there's a single thread in the Living Room that I don't care to follow anymore, I'd really like the option to ignore it.
+1
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: raybeere on January 16, 2009, 04:50 PM
Okay, I'm going to mention a few thoughts I've had, about DC and about forums in general, but I do want to first say that these are more ideas for improvement, rather than real complaints.

First, the whole forum format is great for discussions - but it isn't the ideal way to present the type of information you want to be able to reference. I'm more inclined to use search, and to poke through a whole thread to pick out info, than most people I know (I've scrolled through rolls of microfilm just to find the one entry I needed, after all), but I still find it a time-consuming way to access information. This isn't just the case with DC: any forum I'm on which includes informative posts tends to bury a lot of great information. If you don't search on just the right term, you miss it. When you do find it, if you do, you have to scroll through a lot of comments in the thread that don't add much to the discussion just to see the relevant bits. What am I getting at? Something like a Wiki (not necessarily editable by anyone, btw, I'm speaking of format here) is much easier to navigate and extract information from. The TOS could be revised to allow reposting selected material there so copyright need not be an issue.

Yes, I do know it is a lot of work. :( No, I'm not sure it would be worth the effort. It is just an idea that's been on my mind for a long time, and I think it is at least worth discussion. For what it's worth, the more accessible a reference that was available, the more visitors would be pulled in and exposed to the DC model of software, which I personally think is a great idea. Would it increase traffic enough to justify the effort? Your guess is as good as mine. I'm just tossing ideas out for discussion, as I gather that is Mouser's idea.

My other point is this: I think the more that can be done to draw visitors, to express the ideas behind DC, and to explain them in ways anyone can grasp, the better. Yes, only efforts that yield enough result are worth it, but the goal is important, so I think a discussion specifically of how to win over more visitors is a good one. The basic model is sound; I'm not questioning that. What I'm wondering is, could more be done to spread awareness of, and appreciation for, that model? Whatever your opinion of them, there are a lot of people who won't donate until they figure out what's in it for them (and, yes, there are real benefits) and need to have that spelled out for them.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Carol Haynes on January 16, 2009, 05:15 PM
Actually making more/better use of the blog feature (which I consistently forget about) mights address some of those issues.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: f0dder on January 16, 2009, 06:50 PM
2) New Emoticons (these looks too fat)  :P :down:
Got a link to an emoticon set you like better? I personally like the set used at DC a lot, they're simple and clean and small.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: mahesh2k on January 16, 2009, 07:52 PM
Got a link to an emoticon set you like better? I personally like the set used at DC a lot, they're simple and clean and small.
Yeah, i have specific Set in my mind. It is from Kirupa froums (http://kirupa.com/forum/). But recently they switched to smaller smilies  :o but still those are interesting as well. So i'll try to find Medium sized Smilies just like we see on Wordpress Commnets/posts.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: techidave on January 17, 2009, 07:02 AM
I don't know how many programs Skrommel has on his page but I find it very slow to find what I want and it takes a while to fully load.  If it has a way to alphabetize it or to group them to find them easier?  :-\

His little apps are great but I don't know an easier way to post them either.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: cranioscopical on January 17, 2009, 10:16 AM
Well, since you ask about rooms for improvement...

                                                                    ...have you dusted that desk yet?

mouser command post
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Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Darwin on January 17, 2009, 03:10 PM
Well, since you ask about rooms for improvement...

                                                                    ...have you dusted that desk yet?


-cranioscopical (January 17, 2009, 10:16 AM)

(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/4Medium/LaughAtYou.gif)
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Lashiec on January 18, 2009, 10:46 AM
In addition to support most of the ideas expressed by my fellow DCers, I would like to add a couple of suggestions: One, the possibility to do range selection of posts in "Unread posts", and second, tooltips for the awards listed above each member avatar (that is, add alternative text to the pictures).
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Darwin on January 18, 2009, 11:04 AM
Here's (a minor) one: I'd like to be able to click on a link on my "Unread posts" page and have the link opened in a new tab. Ditto for the main "Forum" page, actually... it would be nice to be able to keep the Forum page open and have any boards or messages that I click on open in new tabs.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Carol Haynes on January 18, 2009, 11:24 AM
Darwin - just use control+click and you can do that now.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: nudone on January 18, 2009, 02:36 PM
Here's (a minor) one: I'd like to be able to click on a link on my "Unread posts" page and have the link opened in a new tab. Ditto for the main "Forum" page, actually... it would be nice to be able to keep the Forum page open and have any boards or messages that I click on open in new tabs.

could use a browser that does 'drag and drop' opening. don't think firefox does it. MAXTHON does.

i.e. don't click the link, just click and drag the link away slightly - each dragged link opens in a new tab. i've been reading the 'unread posts' page like that for a long time.

the good thing with how it works is that the new tab opens up behind the current page you are on - so you can quickly go through the list and open the links you want. then just hit 'mark all messages read'.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: tomos on January 18, 2009, 02:42 PM
I don't know how many programs Skrommel has on his page but I find it very slow to find what I want and it takes a while to fully load.  If it has a way to alphabetize it or to group them to find them easier?  :-\

Dave, the links at the top of his page are in alphabetical order
It does take time to load all right ...
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: techidave on January 18, 2009, 04:01 PM
Your right tomos, they are in order.  If you scroll down the page, they are not.  But when you click a link at the top of the page it should take you to it.  I guess I thought they should be in alphabetical order there as well.

Does his page have links to all of this programs??
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Darwin on January 18, 2009, 05:14 PM
Carol - OMG, I can't believe I hadn't discovered that one on my own  :-[ My excuse is my years of IE use where it is SHIFT-Click that opens a new window - when I moved to Maxthon, SHIFT-Click opened a new tab... Of course, as nudone notes, in Maxthon I got used to just using Maxthon's built-in mouse gesture to do this.

CTRL-click? Who knew?

Thanks!

PS as readers may infer from the above, I've switched to Firefox 3...
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Carol Haynes on January 18, 2009, 06:45 PM
Ctrl-Click works in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome.

The only differences I can see in their behaviour is that IE and Chrome group new tabs alongside the parent tab (so if you Ctrl Click the new tab is placed immediately to the right of the current tab) whereas Firefox and Safari always place new tabs at the extreme right of the tabs list.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: f0dder on January 18, 2009, 06:50 PM
For most browsers, you can also use middle-mouse-button (scrollwheel, whatever) clicking to open a new tab, so you don't need to use a keyboard modifier.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Darwin on January 18, 2009, 06:58 PM
For most browsers, you can also use middle-mouse-button (scrollwheel, whatever) clicking to open a new tab, so you don't need to use a keyboard modifier.

 :-[

Didn't know that one, either...

Ctrl-Click works in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome.

The only differences I can see in their behaviour is that IE and Chrome group new tabs alongside the parent tab (so if you Ctrl Click the new tab is placed immediately to the right of the current tab) whereas Firefox and Safari always place new tabs at the extreme right of the tabs list.

My only defence here is that Maxthon had utterly spoiled me and I never went looking... (yes, I specialise in lame excuses).
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Grorgy on January 18, 2009, 08:41 PM
Using tab mix plus double clicking on the tab bar is the default to open a new tab, so lots of options really
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: PPLandry on January 18, 2009, 09:03 PM
- In many summary view (unread, new replies to your post, etc), show the number of unread posts for each thread, this gives an idea of the activity and helps decide to view the thread now or later
- In many summary views (including the main forum page), show for each thread more than the current "re: Thread title" which gives no clue. Nb of posts, content summary, etc to help us manage the large activity here
- Support a WYSIWYG editor
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Carol Haynes on January 19, 2009, 04:08 AM
For most browsers, you can also use middle-mouse-button (scrollwheel, whatever) clicking to open a new tab, so you don't need to use a keyboard modifier.

Good grief - how did I miss that!

Now all I have to do is to work out how the scroll area on a touch pad can be used in that way ;)
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Josh on January 19, 2009, 04:30 AM
Mouser, here is a complaint. Can we get rid of Carol?
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: mouser on January 19, 2009, 04:38 AM
josh, you are in the military so you understand the concept of rank.
now take a look at the bars on her shoulder and then look at your own.
if you're not careful she will bust you back down to private.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: ropt on January 19, 2009, 04:49 AM

- your DC RSS feed only has 5 items and forum has 30 posts in one day...
I think your RSS feed needs to show 60 posts (on average)?

Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Carol Haynes on January 19, 2009, 04:53 AM
Mouser, here is a complaint. Can we get rid of Carol?

Someone who has a bug as an atavar needs to take care not to get squashed  :-[
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: cmpm on January 19, 2009, 10:35 AM
- your DC RSS feed only has 5 items and forum has 30 posts in one day...
I think your RSS feed needs to show 60 posts (on average)?



Yeah I think the feed could use some help.
I don't know how they work from DC's end.
But from the feed readers they don't show much of what is happening on the board.
And it could solve the recent post problem as well.
Perhaps have it show threads instead of just posts, I don't know.

I had the feed for a while but it didn't say much,
compared to the actual ongoing content of DC.

As far as the search thing, I'm fine with how it works.
An index of links or software would be cool, but the context would not be there. (or could it) So you wouldn't know if they were good or bad links to software and things. And even that depends on the person in some cases.

I've posted software links I recommend at other forums and linked to the conversation at DC about it, so that they would get an idea of what others think about it.

As simple and easy as DC is, I'd hate to have it complicated up.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: PPLandry on January 19, 2009, 01:49 PM
Here is another small bug:

When doing a search, there is a link at the end:
"Static link for reproducing this search: here."

The link works but one search parameter is not included: match all words / match any words. Whatever was chosen, it goes back to match all words...  :o
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Nod5 on January 28, 2009, 05:13 PM
A minor forum quirk in IE (and Maxthon, but not FF): after clicking in the message text of a post the page can't be scrolled with the pageup/pagedown keyboard buttons. Clicking in the right/left margin of the page makes then buttons work again.

another one (also a Maxthon/IE thing I think): when I'm (1) not logged in, (2) already have multiple DC forum pages open, and
(3) log in on one of those pages, then I'm returned not to that page but to one of the other pages (maybe the one that I accessed first?).
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: wreckedcarzz on January 28, 2009, 06:11 PM
(3) log in on one of those pages, then I'm returned not to that page but to one of the other pages (maybe the one that I accessed first?).

Ugh, I HATE this bug. It goes to the last page you visited before logging in. Bad cookie setting would be my guess.

Out of those 3, that one would be my first to fix, because it affects all browsers.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: icekin on January 29, 2009, 02:09 AM
No issues with Donationcoder.com itself, but I never received my DC Member's kit, tried requesting twice. I want a cody sticker.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: simakuutio on January 29, 2009, 02:34 AM
For most browsers, you can also use middle-mouse-button (scrollwheel, whatever) clicking to open a new tab, so you don't need to use a keyboard modifier.

I use this feature (middle-mouse-button) frequently with my Opera. So no big news there..:)
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Marcel25 on January 29, 2009, 04:08 AM
I have a non-technical, but more strategic point (which I made elsewhere): I would like to see more emphasis on discussion of the donation/freeware/micopayments system. Don't get me wrong, I really like the system and I have made compliments in the article about it.

The points that were made in this topic concern small features to accomodate existing users. The community would benefit if it would attract more new users. I realise not everybody is interested in strategy discussions, but the donation system and strategy is what sets you apart from other forums and other communities.

I feel that the community is largly built on long time members and it is my belief that an ongoing discussion would benefit the community and attract and keep new people.

Also I have posted on more feedback in my postings in the article topic. Maybe a good test for you is to try and find them ;-)



Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: cyberdiva on January 29, 2009, 09:31 AM
I'd like the option to ignore a thread so that it doesn't show up in my Unread Posts list. Ignoring entire boards is useful sometimes (although it can be hard to find) but if there's a single thread in the Living Room that I don't care to follow anymore, I'd really like the option to ignore it.
+1
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: mahesh2k on January 30, 2009, 03:06 AM
Here is an Enhancement request.  ;)

As Most of us have apps and have some "apps section" in forums. So if the link to that section is created on Profile as "Apps"(It can be placed above the Member Map or near other links). That will be better. We can even add single link to "apps section" icon near Avatar. That will avoid adding more and more icons to avatar. We'll only reserve icons for contests/event etc.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Nod5 on February 11, 2009, 02:45 PM
another small forum quirk concerning the big, "standard" reply buttons: let the first item in the "code highlighting" dropdown be "-- insert code --" and let it work just like the "insert code" button in the quick reply box, i.e. enclose the selected text in [ code ] tags but without any language highlighting. Alternatively, add a separate "insert code" button for the standard reply interface.
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: PPLandry on February 11, 2009, 03:26 PM
In many of the thread listings, specific to a user (such as the "new replies to your posts"), it would be nice to have an additional column with the number of new posts. So often, I end up looking a thread just to see that only 1 new post was made, when I'd like to wait until 3-4 new posts are made (minimize context switching). The total number of posts column could be replaced with this one... who remembers / cares what is the total post count (in that display) as it is shown when viewing the actual thread.

For the InfoQube community web site, I use Drupal and it shows in red, the number of new posts. I find this very useful
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: J-Mac on February 11, 2009, 11:07 PM
My little, tiny, monir but very annoying complaint:

Most forum software has a hyperlinked list of pages for multi-page threads - as DC also does - but all others I have seen have a "Next Page" arrow, "Previous Page" arrow, and "Last Page" arrow to aid in navigation of that thread. Not so on DC's forums. DC has linked page numbers on the left, and "<<  Previous  Next  >>" on the right. But the Previous/Next do NOT lead to the next page in the thread but the next thread!

Even though I have fallen into that trap several times and should know better, I use so many other forums that do not do it that way that I still get caught every now and then.

Grrrrr...!

Jim
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Target on February 11, 2009, 11:44 PM
don't know if this is even possible, but this really irritates me

is it possible to provide the functionality to print or save/export a thread in it's entirety.

I occasionally want to print a thread so i can review it offline or use it as a reference, and I really hate having to print out 3, 5, 10, 20 or more pages individually
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: app103 on February 12, 2009, 12:03 AM
don't know if this is even possible, but this really irritates me

is it possible to provide the functionality to print or save/export a thread in it's entirety.

I occasionally want to print a thread so i can review it offline or use it as a reference, and I really hate having to print out 3, 5, 10, 20 or more pages individually

Just modify the url a little by adding &action=printpage to the thread's main URL.

For example, the url for this thread, all one one page, would be this:

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16619&action=printpage

Or just click that little button at the botom of every page in a thread that says "print"

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Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Target on February 12, 2009, 12:24 AM
well don't i look like stupid... :-[

I suppose i should have tried it first (I've never needed to do it here, but whenever I've done it in other forums the experience has always been bad bad bad...)
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: app103 on February 12, 2009, 12:25 AM
Don't feel bad. I didn't notice that button either, till after I made the post explaining how to edit the url.

I took a screenshot and edited my post to include it.  :-[
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Target on February 12, 2009, 12:55 AM
I knew the button was there, I just assumed... (DOH!!DOH!!DOH!!DOH!!)

thanks for the tip on the URL though, I'll (hopefully) put that to good use...
Title: Re: DonationCoder.com - Complaints, Problems, and Rooms for Improvement
Post by: Nod5 on February 12, 2009, 01:39 AM
In many of the thread listings, specific to a user (such as the "new replies to your posts"), it would be nice to have an additional column with the number of new posts.
good idea!

Another thought: on the "new replies to your posts" page maybe an additional condensed list of the N last threads that you yourself have posted to could be added at the bottom of that page. Because when logging in to check replies it can also pretty often be useful to quickly jump back to a thread one recently posted with no new replies now (perhaps you read replies earlier but didn't have time to post and now want to do so, or you want to edit what you've posted).

So what I am suggesting is that a list like that from the "Recent posts of: ___[user]____" page, but in the same compact format as the alternative "recent posts" page: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=recentdense